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New audiences for old tunes
18/01/2012 09:48
"I dreamed of this theatre for a long time," said theatre founder Huynh Anh Tuan. "I noticed that tourists in HCM City didn't know where to go to hear Vietnamese traditional music . They don't know where to go to learn more about Vietnamese traditional culture ." � The...
Tho Ha ancient village with a typical festival in Kinh Bac
02/11/2011 04:27
Tho Ha ancient village festival. Tho Ha Village located in Van Ha Commune, Viet Yen District, Bac Giang Province, about 50km northeast of Hanoi , is considered the “sacred land”. Tho Ha village is called the cradle of culture in Kinh Bac with many typical village...
Pa Then Women with their traditional costumes
01/11/2011 04:08
Like many other ethnic groups in Vietnam, Pa Then people grow flax to weave the brocades and fabrics for making their traditional garments. Most of the adult Pa Then women learned how to weave and sew from their mothers. According to Pa Then custom, women have to learn these skills not...
Vietnamese Dan Tranh musical instrument
31/10/2011 09:02
Dan Tranh has a long-parallelepiped shape, resembles a bamboo tube that has been sliced vertically in half.. The frame of the instrument has trapezium-shape, 110-120 cm in length. The large end is 25-30 cm in width with holes and to hang the strings. The narrow is 15-20 cm in width with 16...
Kiep Bac Temple Festival
15/09/2011 08:23
The main day of the festival occurs on the 20th day of the 8th lunar month, but from the previous days onward, the festival attract many visitors from all over the country to the Con Son – Kiep Bac cultural and historical site in the northern province of Hai Duong. The legend...
Pilgrims flood Ba Chua Xu Temple Festival
15/09/2011 08:20
Ba Chua Xu Temple was built in 1820, at the foot of Sam Mountain, Vinh Te Commune, Chau Doc Town, An Giang Province. Ba Chua Xu Temple is constructed according to the Chinese character "quoc", has 4 square roofs, roofed with blue pile-shaped tiles. According to a legend, in the early...
Vietnam Christmas
15/09/2011 08:16
Christmas is one of the four most important festivals of the Vietnamese year, including the birthday of Buddha, the New Year and the Mid-autumn Festival. Although the Christians observed the religious rituals of Christmas. Traditional Vietnamese religions are Buddhism and the Chinese...